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Internships and Opportunities

Students in the Department of Art and Art History take part in numerous internships and other fieldwork experiences. These positions are often held for one academic semester and provide students with real world experience in the areas related to their interests. In the past students have interned in curatorial and research roles, as well as in the area of art business and marketing. These opportunities not only provide students with professional experience, but also give them an education in what employers will expect of them after graduation.

Apply to these Current Internships & Research Opportunities

Providence College Uundergraduate Research Small Grant Program. With an appreciation and understanding of the impact of undergraduate research on student success, the Center for Engaged Learning, in collaboration with the Office of Academic Affairs and the College’s Undergraduate Research Committee (PC?URC), is pleased to announce a competitive small grants program to support undergraduate scholarly research, creative and/or artistic work during the 2017-2018 academic year.

Two recent receipients:

Cecelia Lahiff ’18, Humanities and Art History, “Brunelleschi and Ancient Rome: The Architecture of Santa Maria degli Angeli”
Josef Riccio ’18, History and Art History, “Early Presidential Iconography”Traineeships-The Wordsworth Trust: Apply for a year-long, paid trainee assistantship position at the house museum for William Wordswoth, in Grasmere, England (in the beautiful Lake Country district). There are four positions, there’s definately a visual art componet involved, and the deadline is November 6, 2017. Positions run January-December 2018. The Wordsworth Trust has been providing training opportunities for people starting careers in museums, libraries and literature for over 30 years.

RISD Nature Lab STEAM curriculum intern. The RISD Nature Lab is accepting junior and senior applicants for an internship involving the development and delivery of two curriculum modules geared towards grades K-12, that make use of the lab’s collections and imaging systems to promote learning in science, technology, engineering and math through an arts approach. See more information on arts internships in Providence and Boston.

Providence ¡CityArts! for Youth’s has the following Summer Positions: Turnaround Teaching Artist, Minimum Time Americorps Teaching Artist, Summer Program Assistant and CityArts Americorps Vista. Our work is inspired by the creative process of art-making and the exploration of ideas and concepts that shape our communities and everyday lives. ¡CityArts! fosters creative thinking and expression, promotes positive social development, engages youth in public service and community, and provides sources of hope and inspiration—particularly for those youth who have little or no opportunity for consistent and affordable access to quality out-of-school time programs and are limited in their exposure beyond their own neighborhoods. At ¡CityArts!, youth are encouraged to express, create, and grow!

Brown Post-Baccalaureate Curatorial Fellow at Smith College Museum of Art. Smith College is accepting applications for a Brown Post-Baccalaureate Curatorial Fellow. Reporting to the Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs the Curatorial Fellow will provide administrative support for the broad range of programs and activities undertaken by the Smith College Museum of Art Curatorial Department, including assisting in specific exhibition projects and the management, research, access, and record-keeping on works of art in the four curatorial divisions; Prints, Drawings, and Photographs; Painting and Sculpture; Asian Art; and Contemporary Art. This is a 1 year, limited-term, possibility of renewal.

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston posts positions frequently and the deadline for applications for summer internships in usually in April. Some are paid positions and some unpaid.

Student Work Opportunities in our Department

Students are welcome to apply for work study positions within our Department. They may work as Lab Technicians in the Visual Resource Center where they can gain real world experience working on our web page, photographing images for the department, managing our social media accounts, cataloguing images of artwork or aiding Art History professors in their research and writing projects. They may also work as an aid to Studio Art professors in photography, ceramics, digital Imaging, printmaking, sculpture and drawing/painting. These positions give students the opportunity to work closely with their professors and to take an active part in the research being undertaken by the faculty of Providence College. Students also gain professional experience in these paid positions.

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